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13 June 2010 | 27 replies
It hit the UPI news and a past President of the United States declined to come to town during a political rally who had been involved with that organization.
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6 December 2016 | 21 replies
Do not work with large banks, get to know your bank president on a first name basis and they will do these types of loans for you if you are a man of your word.
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25 December 2013 | 21 replies
For instance, President Obama's house (not the big white one in DC, but his actual family home!)
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22 February 2012 | 1 reply
Based on that premise, IF you want the cells to be disregarded and have everything "roll up" to the parent you need to have the parent be the single member of all cells and elect the default status.
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23 July 2018 | 2 replies
The after-repair appraised value was oddly issued in a range, of $400,000-$420,000, with the lender electing the low end of the range as their ultimate loan amount determinant.
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16 January 2018 | 3 replies
In that case, keep in mind that Trump said Bush was the worst President in the history of the United States and that he should have been impeached based on the lies he made up when waging war on Iraq: http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jEwnQC3h5l3nVJ7w4uNs7V3YBDoQ Perhaps Gore should be sharing a cell with Bush...at least that's the way Trump would have it...
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1 May 2013 | 17 replies
This is not to denigrate Alan's course [it was an, interesting, read... ] but it was constructed pre-2008, before the SEC and many state regulators started becoming more viligant at monitoring the increasing number of real estate investors issuing securities [if you are raising capital from investors to invest in real estate....]Whichever course you elect to use, or not, or self-educate, seeking out an active attorney current on your state's and federal SEC law is ESSENTIAL, before you mail out any post cards inviting folks to luncheons or otherwise ADVERTISE for investors [as Alan's course advocated when I perused it].The red flag to state regulators is when ads appear, if the advertiser has not complied with the proper state registrations prior to soliciting investors through advertising, you've just created a HUGE target for yourself in most states.....On the other hand, a good attorney practicing in your state's PPM or private offering realm can protect you, and review your offering to investors....and save you some stiff penalties[you've probably heard of the one old school very successful investor, sort of the grand daddy in the private investors area, was actually shut down, for a comparatively MINOR failure to maintain proper paperwork, i.e. whether funds would be returned to investors after each project, or rolled over to the next project..., simple paperwork, had it been drafted correctly, and then proper records maintained]Best of luckBob
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25 January 2012 | 1 reply
Of course, when we see that there isn't recent activity somewhere, we elect to not use that thing.
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28 October 2013 | 2 replies
There are many exceptions, but this is typical.As far as investing from a distance, this will come back to the team that you elect to assemble.
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12 August 2014 | 6 replies
@WillPorter Porter Visit the REIA website call the president and several vendors before the meeting.